Entzauberte Nacht: Die Industrialisierung des Lichts im 19. Jahrhundert

Author/Contributor(s):	Schivelbusch, Wolfgang
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	12/20/1995
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Wolfgang Schivelbusch tells the story of the development of artificial light in the nineteenth century. Not simply a history of a technology, Disenchanted Night revelas the ways that the technology of artificial illumination helped forge modern consciousness. In his strikingly illustrated and lively narrative, Schivelbusch discusses a range of subject including the political symbolism of streetlamps, the rise of nightlife and the shopwindow, and the importance of the salon in bourgeois culture.